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Israel’s record on rights isn’t something to be admired
A new blog from Jewish Voice for Peace, The Only Democracy in the Middle East?, details the ever-worsening human rights abuses commited by Israel against peace activists, dissident Israelis and Palestinians.
Melbourne Age chastises Colombo over rights abuses
Following yesterday’s strong editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald over Sri Lanka, today the Melbourne Age adds its voice to the outcry. I can’t read these pieces and not think about the gutlessness of the corporate press when writing about the Middle East. Slamming Sri Lanka is risk-free for editors. Seriously challenging Israel’s occupation of…
Israel as “morally stained” due to the occupation
I like the way the Magnes Zionist writes this. The established Jewish community has often become little more than supporters of Israeli apartheid. You’re either against the occupation or not. Simple as that. Work to end it or get out of the way. Over to him: It means that we are seeing a “paradigm shift”…
Jews are wonderful at backing human rights (er, except on Palestine)
A leading Aboriginal leader in Australia, Noel Pearson, falls into the most obvious trap imaginable; because many Jews are committed to indigenous reconciliation, we’ll turn a blind eye to the most racist actions they back in Palestine: They [Jews] are a community who have never forgotten history and they never allow anybody else to forget…
When a Jew accuses a mere non-Jew of hating Jews and Israel
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald: If The… Atlantic‘s Andrew Sullivan, and Time‘s Joe Klein, and Foreign Policy‘s Stephen Walt, and the University of Chicago’s John Mearsheimer, and Gen. Wes Clark (a TNR target), and Howard Dean, and former President Jimmy… Carter, and a whole slew of others like them are “anti-semites,” then how terrible of an insult is it?… …
The best way to treat free gifts from Israel
At least some political leaders aren’t obsessed with Israeli “democracy”: The deputy prime minister of Greece has sent back to the Israeli Embassy in Athens three bottles of wine given to him as a gift, because they were produced in the Golan, which “belongs to Syria” and is “illegally occupied.” The embassy had given the…
Sydney Morning Herald recognises Sri Lankan anarchy
The kind of Sydney Morning Herald editorial that is hard to condemn. In fact, it’s necessarily strong against Sri Lanka’s descent into brutality. Alas, can we dream that one day the corporate press will equally see Israel’s occupation of Palestine in the same way? War is often the justification for a temporary suspension of normal…
And still the people of Gaza wait to be remembered
While residents in Gaza face increasingly regular power cuts, worsening the already cold conditions, Gazan blogger Amir Ismail writes on the effect of the Israeli blockade: For two decades the Gaza Strip has exported millions of flowers to the West. But the situation deteriorated seriously in the past three years. Horticulturalists’ greenhouses were bombed during…
Elton John should turn his back on Zionist oppression (and write a song about it)
The global campaign and coverage of boycotting Israeli events and institutions is gathering steam (the latest information on the academic boycott is here). And what about this? A group of British academics have called on singer Elton John to cancel his scheduled performance in Israel this June. “Political or not political, when you stand up…